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of the Forezgn Mission 
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Rev. CHRISTIAN FREDERICK HEYER, M. D. 
First American Lutheran Foreign Missionary 


Board of Horeign Missions 

OF THE UNITED LUTHERAN 

CHURCH, IN AMERICA 
Baltimore, Maryland 


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AL Birl’s-Gye View of 

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Lattheran Chueh 


HE Board of Foreign Missions of the 
United Lutheran Church in America is 
related to three continents, Asia, Africa 
and South America, and is responsible in part 
for their Christianization. 
Some of our mission fields are small and 
must be enlarged. 
Our Foreign Mission work challenges the 
very best effort of our Church. 


4 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 
India 


HE intrepid pioneer, Rev. Christian Fred- 
© erick Heyer, M.D., went to India in 1842, 

and laid the foundation for both our 
Guntur and Rajahmundry Missions. 

The Guntur Mission Field lies south of the 
Krishna River in the Telugu area of the Madras 
Presidency, India. One hundred miles north of 
it, along the banks of the Godavery River and 
still in the Telugu country, lies the field which 
centers in Rajahmundry. The Guntur Field 
contains a population of approximately 1,500,000, 
and the Rajahmundry Field, 3,000,000, Hindus 
and Mohammedans. 

How woefully undermanned both of these 
fields are, may be noted from the fact that in 
the one there are at present only eleven or- 
dained men, an average of one ordained mis- 
sionary to every 5,000 baptized Christians; and 
in the other there are nine men, or one ordained 
missionary to every 3,000 baptized Christians. 

Of course the bulk of the mission work is 
and must be done by the native Christian work- 
ers, of whom there are 900 in the Guntur Field 
and 650 in the Rajahmundry Field, a total of 
1550; but the expansion of the work is seriously 
retarded by inadequate oversight due to the 
shortage of foreign missionaries. Fifty new 
missionaries, men and women, ought to leave 
for our India fields within the next two years. 
Here is a subject for earnest and continual 
prayer. 

The women’s work has gone forward in 


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recent years with more rapidity than any other 
part, which is due to the splendid interest and 
support of our American Women’s Missionary 
Societies. In the Guntur Mission there are four- 
teen, and in the Rajahmundry Mission eleven 
single women at work in their several depart- 
ments. The story of their successful efforts in 
zenana, educational, medical, philanthropic and 
industrial work at the main stations and, more 
recently, at a number of out-stations, forms a 
fascinating chapter of our mission history. 


Ohe Jevupore District 


T is quite certain that the former Breklum 
I Mission in the Jeypore District will be as- 

signed by the Indian Government to the 
Board of Foreign Missions of the United Luth- 
eran Church in America. Before the war forty 
missionaries were at work in this Mission with 
its 26,000 converts. During the war one of our 
missionaries has supervised the entire work. 
We are now appropriating the sum of one 
thousand dollars a month for the Jeypore Dis- 
trict. After it has been definitely assigned to 
us, we must adequately man and finance it. 


Burma 


CONGREGATION of Telugu Lutherans 
AL in Rangoon, Burma, numbering 350 mem- 

bers, mostly men, is in charge of a cate- 
chist. It should be strengthened and other 
congregations should be established in Burma, 
where many of our Telugu Lutherans find em- 
ployment. 


6 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 


Japan 


APAN is a great and important foreign mis- 
J sion field. 


The Missions of the United Synod in 
the South and of the General Council, working 
in the islands of Kyushu and Hondo, are now 
united to hasten the Christian conquest of the 
land of the Rising Sun. 


The main stations are Saga, Kumamoto, 
Fukuoka, Osaka, Toyohashi, Nagoya and Tokyo. 
Look them up on the map and see how strategic 
they are. 


The baptized membership is 700. 


There are eighteen Japanese pastors, evan- 
gelists and other Japanese workers employed 
in the united Mission. 


The educational work comprises Kinder- 
gartens, Sunday Schools and a large Middle 
School with a Theological Department. This 
school is called the Kyushu Gakuin. It is lo- 
cated at Kumamoto and has an enrollment of 
over 550 pupils. 


There are ten missionary families and three 
single women at work in the Mission. 


At the Peace Table non-Christian Japan 
ranks as one of the five great nations of the 
world. We share with other American Churches 
the sacred task of giving the Gospel to Japan. 


American Lutheran missionaries have been 
at work in the empire for twenty-seven years, 


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but their number has been small and their 
equipment inadequate. Now that the whole 
United Lutheran Church in America is back of 
the enterprise, the next few years should wit- 
ness the rapid and strong growth of our Luth- 
eran Mission in Japan. 





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10 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 


Alfrica 


HE Mission in Africa is located in Liberia. 

Liberia must be free indeed! We must 

help to make it free through the Gospel 
of the great Liberator, the divine Redeemer, 
Jesus Christ. 

The name of the main station—Muhlenberg 
—should be in itself an impelling incentive to 
missionary work. Another important station 
is Buhlo Pelle, where considerable progress has 
been made in evangelistic work. Work in the 
interior towns and villages is very promising 
and should be pushed with vigor. To give 
strength to the religious effort of the mission- 
aries considerable industrial mission work is 
undertaken. A coffee plantation of one hundred 
acres is under cultivation. The educational 
work needs strengthening and there is much 
opportunity for effective medical work. Seven- 
teen foreign missionaries, including wives of 
missionaries, are in this field. Six are ordained 
men and five are single women. 





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South ALmerica 


UIANA, South America, like all of Gaul in 

Cesar’s day, is divided into three parts: 

British, Dutch and French Guiana. Our 
Mission is located in British Guiana. The main 
station is New Amsterdam, where a church was 
established by Dutch Lutherans in 1734. Out- 
stations are located on the Berbice River in 
Ituna, Maria Henrietta and St. Luist. The 
communicant membership of these congrega- 
tions numbers 3385, “decendants of those who in 
early times came to the colony and are the 
result of the commingling of various races.” 
In January, 1916, a missionary, ordained and 
married, was sent to take charge of this field 
under the direction of the Board of Foreign 
Missions. Others should be sent in order that 
the congregations already established may be- 
come centers of missionary effort extending 
inland among the aboriginal Indians. 


Buenuns Aires 


HE Executive Board of the United Luth- 

eran Church in America has just trans- 

ferred the mission work at Buenos Aires, 
Argentina, South America, to our Board of 
Foreign Missions. 


This mission was established two years 
ago by the Pan Lutheran Society. Rev. HE. 
Ceder is the first and only missionary sent out 
by this Society. He is still at work in Buenos 
Aires. As soon as possible a second missionary 
will be sent to that city by the Board of For- 
eign Missions. 


12 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 


Doane Administration 


OR the Home Administration of its foreign 
H mission work the United Lutheran Church 

elected twenty-one men, thirteen ministers 
and eight laymen, chosen largely from the 
membership of the uniting boards. They have 
organized the Board of Foreign Missions of the 
United Lutheran Church, incorporated under 
the laws of the State of Maryland, with head- 
quarters in Baltimore. The office address is 
No. 21 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md. 


The officers and members of the Board are: 
Rey. Ezra K. Bett, D.D., President; Rrv. PRor. 
C. THEODORE BENZE, D.D., Vice-President; Rey. 
GEORGE DRAcH, Recording Secretary; Rev. L. B. 
Wotr, D.D., Treasurer. 


Members, whose term expires in 1924: 
Revs. Dr. Hzpa K. Bet, J. A. SINGMASTER, M. 
J. Hprine, C. T. Birnzz,. R. BIBLINSKI, -and 
Messrs. JAMES M. SNYDER and WILLIAM H. 
MENGES. 


Members, whose term expires in 1922: 
Revs. Dr. A. STEIMLE, JOHN A. WEYL, J. S. SIMON, 
L. C. MANGES, and Messrs. Henry P. BOYER, 
M.D., H. P. Moutiter, H. L. BonNHAM. 


Members, whose term expires in 1920: 
Revs. Dr. M. M. Kinarp, J. E. Byers, GEORGE 
A. GREISS, WILLIAM BH. Frey, and Messrs. W. 
Frep MoNROE, CHARLES BAuM, M.D., AUGUSTUS 
J. HERRLICH. 

Advisory members from the Augustana 
Synod: Revs. Dr. L. G. ABRAHAMSON, F. JACOB- 
son and Pror. C. W. Foss, PH.D. 





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Ole Wark of the 
Serretaries 


HE administrative work of the Board has 
been divided into three parts and to each 
Secretary has been assigned a part, whose 

major duties are designated as follows: 


Rey. CHARLES L. Brown, D.D., Correspond- 
ing Secretary for Japan, Africa and South 
America, Mission Study, Out-going Mission- 
aries, Shipments of Goods, Slides and Lectures. 


Rev. Grorce Dracu, Corresponding Secre- 
tary for India, Patrons and Proteges, Literature 
and Librarian. 


Rey. L. B. Wor, D.D., Home Correspond- 
ence Secretary, Missionaries on Furlough, Field 
Secretaries, Campaigns and Candidates. 


The following is a summary of the statistics 
of our Missions: 





Mission- Native Chris- 

Fields. aries. Workers. tians. 

A. Gintur, jindia®: «3... 5.: 40 900 55,000 

. Rajahmundry, India ... 30 650 27,000 

Reon Jey pore, INdlae.. a... —_ 600 26,000 
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Be LADGLIA ATLIGAM sets. 4's as ILA 19 225 
—6. British Guiana, S. A.... 2 7 335 








14 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 


Ohe Supporting Nome 
Base 


HAT the United General Bodies had done 
to support their foreign missions is in- 
dicative, indeed, of their interest and 

willingness in the past, but by no means of 
their ability or of their united participation in 
the future. Some of the more backward synods 
and sections will surely push their contributions 
upward under the stimulus of combined and 
enlarged effort, and all will be effected by the 
challenge of increased responsibilities and op- 
portunities of service in the more zealous pur- 
suit of the great task of spreading the kingdom 
and truth of Jesus Christ in the non-Christian 
world. 

A survey of the needs of our combined for- 
eign mission obligations calls for no less than 
$350,000 a year, to be secured through appor- 
tionments during the next two years. For 
special objects, to be raised by special cam- 
paigns, about one hundred thousand dollars ad- 
ditional should be secured. Confident reliance 
is placed on the combined and increased inter- 
est and endeavor of the Women’s Missionary 
Society and of the Laymen’s Missionary Move- 
ment. It should not be beyond the range of the 
whole United Lutheran Church to offer half a 
million dollars each year to God for the coming 
of His kingdom to the non-Christian world. 


Then, as we sing and pray, 

So let us GO or PAY, 

And this our Motto make: 

Christ for the World—The World for Christ. 


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